Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 4 , Pages 585-591 , October 2009

Neurologic outcomes with cerebral oxygen monitoring in traumatic brain injury

  • Mary C. McCarthy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mary C. McCarthy, MD, One Wyoming Street, Suite 7000, Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, OH 45409.
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  • Hugh Moncrief, MD

      Affiliations

    • Neurosurgical Institute, Inc., Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, OH
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  • Jean M. Sands, RN

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Centre, Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, OH
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  • Ronald J. Markert, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine and Orthopedics, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
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  • Lawrence C. Hall, DO

      Affiliations

    • Radiology Physicians, Inc., Dayton, OH
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  • Ian C. Wenker, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
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  • Harry L. Anderson III, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
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  • A. Peter Ekeh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
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  • Mbaga S. Walusimbi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
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  • Randy J. Woods, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
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  • Jonathan M. Saxe, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
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  • Kathryn M. Tchorz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH

,Accepted 18 June 2009.

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 Partial funding by the Adam Williams Initiative Foundation, Mission Viejo, California.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00465-6

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.059

Surgery
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